The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
